[arch-general] HAL depreciation

[James Rayner]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16 +0530, "Nilesh Govindarajan"
<lists at itech7.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't have seven mouse buttons.
> The mouse and keyboard is already configured in xorg.conf using
> drivers mouse and kbd.
> If I stop hal, and then start Xorg, it doesn't work. I've to hard reset
> my box.

That's because you haven't configured Xorg. Without HAL, you need to
create entries in your Xorg.conf regarding mouse/keyboard. This is
documented all over the internet, and a new config using Xorg -configure
will probably also contain the appropriate lines.